Digital Foundry has shared new information about the possible NVIDIA Tegra SoC that the Nintendo Switch 2 could use, and it touches on a topic that’s actually quite interesting. As I told you on previous occasions, the said console is expected to come with a modified version of the Tegra Orin SoC, a chip that specializes in AI and comes with DLA, i.e. Deep Learning Accelerator.

That accelerator is the key to the new information Digital Foundry is leaving us with, I’ll explain. As many of you already know, NVIDIA DLSS Super Resolution technology works as a method of intelligent image rescaling and reconstruction and has Hardware acceleration via tensor cores. This enables excellent image quality and stability and significantly improves performance.

However, the use of this technology also has a certain computational cost, that is, although it increases performance and is of course worth using, the truth is that it involves some consumption of resources, it is not completely free. This is something that not everyone knows, but it is completely normal because we use technology that works with AI algorithms, and Therefore, it is essential to have tensile coresbecause otherwise the computational cost would be unaffordable for a GPU without said cores.

How would DLA be possible? completely or almost completely eliminate these computational costs which features NVIDIA DLSS Super Resolution technology. Keep in mind that we’re talking about the Nintendo Switch 2, a console that at best can accommodate a Tegra SoC with a TDP between 15 and 30 watts, and that’s where everything counts when it comes to reaching maximum performance.

The GPU of said chip will almost certainly be based on the Ampere architecture, but it will be heavily cropped and according to Digital Foundry its ability to apply DLSS Super Resolution may be limited to 1080p or 1440p. Note that we are talking about output resolutions, that is, these will be the target resolutions of the technology mentioned, not the rendering resolution.

Even in this case, the presence of NVIDIA DLSS Super Resolution would be great value on the Nintendo Switch 2, both in docked mode and portable mode, as it would lower the base resolution and leave a significant performance margin, offering a final result much better than traditional upscaling, which lacks AI support. Please note that although this information is reliable, Not confirmed.